June 9, 2016

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Diamond should expect water issue to be fixed within two weeks— GWI Chief Executive

Jun 09, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Diamond should expect water issue to be fixed within two weeks— GWI Chief Executive

Residents of Diamond, East Bank Demerara, roughly 5,000, have been without water for about a week, dating back to June 2. The Guyana Water Inc. (GWI) Well in Diamond has yet again run into problems....

Ex-policeman jailed for 10 years for 2010 attempt of wife’s murder

Jun 09, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Ex-policeman jailed for 10 years for 2010 attempt of wife’s murder

Ex-policeman Waliaferro Joseph who was on trial in the Berbice High Court on a charge of attempting to kill his one time fiancée, Uneatha McLean, has been jailed for 10 years. Joseph, called...

City-bound Essequibians suffer delays

Jun 09, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on City-bound Essequibians suffer delays

For the past two weeks, passengers using the Supenaam Ferry Stelling, at Good Hope, Essequibo Coast have been encountering delays. Wednesday afternoon this newspaper received a call informing that...

How smart is the Bank of Nova Scotia?

Jun 09, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon 1

I took up a complaint from a customer of the Bank of Nova Scotia. In the process, I stepped on an interesting behavioural pattern of this bank in Guyana. Before we proceed, it needs to be said that...

Policy finally completed to guide Guyana’s developing Oil and Gas Industry

Jun 09, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Policy finally completed to guide Guyana’s developing Oil and Gas Industry

Minister of Natural Resources, Raphael Trotman, is elated to announce that a policy is finally in place to help chart the course for Guyana’s developing oil and gas industry. Trotman said that the...

Political declaration on ending AIDS adopted in New York

Jun 09, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Political declaration on ending AIDS adopted in New York

A progressive, new and actionable Political Declaration on Ending AIDS was yesterday adopted by Member States at the United Nations General Assembly High-Level Meeting on Ending AIDS, taking place...

Guyana sees steady reduction of HIV prevalence – Minister tells UN meeting

Jun 09, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana sees steady reduction of HIV prevalence – Minister tells UN meeting

Guyana has witnessed a steady reduction in HIV prevalence among the general population, according to Minister of Public Health, Dr. George Norton, translates to 3.4 per cent in 2004 to 1.4 per cent...

Statistics suggest that it’s too soon to Judge City drainage system

Jun 09, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Statistics suggest that it’s too soon to Judge City drainage system

By Murtland Haley Yesterday the focus was on flooding experienced by residents and farmers of No. 28 Village, West Coast Berbice. Such events remind the nation that Guyana is prone to flooding. It...

Rehabilitation of Supenaam, Parika stellings slated for next year

Jun 09, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Rehabilitation of Supenaam, Parika stellings slated for next year

Supenaam and Parika stellings will be rehabilitated next year, according to General Manager for the Transport and Harbours Department (T&HD), Marcelene Merchant. Ms Merchant said that the...

POLITICAL SELF DESTRUCTION

Jun 09, 2016 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists 1

One of the more dangerous aspects of politics in Guyana is the way in which it can disfigure the personality of politicians. The power entrusted to Ministers has made them the most powerful persons...

Muneshwer’s gets GRA’ approval for Houston’ Customs Transit Shed

Jun 09, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Muneshwer’s gets GRA’ approval for Houston’ Customs Transit Shed

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has announced that the Commissioner General (Ag), Ingrid Griffith, has granted approval for Muneshwer’s Limited to establish a Customs Transit Shed at Plantation...

June session of Demerara Criminal Assizes opens

Jun 09, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on June session of Demerara Criminal Assizes opens

– Picture boy, seaman murder trials underway Two murder trials got underway when the June Session of the Demerara Criminal Assizes opened at the Georgetown High Court on Tuesday. The trials...

Mentally ill woman taken off Anna Regina streets

Jun 09, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Mentally ill woman taken off Anna Regina streets

After days of trying to remove a mentally ill woman from her Richmond, Essequibo Coast home and from the Anna Regina car park where she spends her entire day soliciting help from passersby, the...

The Public Procurement Commission…Sub-committee to shortlist PAC nominees by month end – Irfaan Ali

Jun 09, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on The Public Procurement Commission…Sub-committee to shortlist PAC nominees by month end – Irfaan Ali

After months of delays, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) appears to be making some headway when it comes to the establishment of the long-awaited, Public Procurement Commission, says PAC Chairman,...

Natural resources half year review…Gold declarations, work on Botanical Gardens, National Park highlighted

Jun 09, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Natural resources half year review…Gold declarations, work on Botanical Gardens, National Park highlighted

Steady strides in reaching gold declaration targets and completion of rehabilitation works on the Botanical Gardens and National Park, are among some of the high points of the Natural Resources...

CJIA records 80 percent rise in passengers for Jubilee

Jun 09, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on CJIA records 80 percent rise in passengers for Jubilee

May 2016 recorded 80.3 percent passenger traffic at Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Guyana’s main Port of Entry, when compared to May 2015. The airport’s Statistics Department data shows that...

Handyman caught with gun in bus remanded to prison

Jun 09, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Handyman caught with gun in bus remanded to prison

A route 42 minibus passenger who was recently caught by police with an unlicensed gun was yesterday remanded to prison, after he made an appearance before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan in the...

Quoting Napoleon to support police promotions

Jun 09, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Quoting Napoleon to support police promotions

Dear Editor, I perused the recent list of police sergeants promoted to inspectors by the Police Service Commission. I am both happy and sad. Happy that after much wrangling between the Police Service...

A poem for Dale Andrews

Jun 09, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on A poem for Dale Andrews

Dear Editor, I wish to express my sympathy to the entire Staff at Kaieteur News for the tragic loss of their beloved staff the late Dale Andrews;a man of great wisdom and wit of gracious and elegant...

Conducting unbecoming at the airport

Jun 09, 2016 KNews Letters 1

Dear Editor, As early as 5:15 am the line of persons traveling on Caribbean Airlines on Wednesday 1st June was stretching towards the entrance of the waiting area. I was in line as I was going to the...

Teachers must be paid this specific set of money

Jun 09, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Teachers must be paid this specific set of money

Dear Editor, I would like to know when the Ministry of Finance will be paying teachers their Whitley Council emoluments. Teachers, like myself and many others, who had their tour of Whitley Council...

A TRIBUTE TO A TITAN OF JOURNALISM

Jun 09, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on A TRIBUTE TO A TITAN OF JOURNALISM

Dear Editor, Dale Anthony Andrews is gone but his legacy and the lessons he leaves with journalists, young and old alike, point to a moral compass in journalism. That moral compass will be something...

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‘Need For Speed’ meet and greet set for West Central Mall this...

Jun 04, 2026

Kaieteur Sports – Karting action returns this month with bigger and better prizes, following the announcement that Jumbo Jet Events is staging the Need for Speed event, where over GYD $17 million...

The law of numbers is catching up with us

Jun 04, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Every day you pick up the newspaper and you are greeted by another tragedy on our roads. It has become so routine that we scarcely have time to absorb one horrific accident before another takes its place. Just two days ago, three persons lost their lives in a devastating road...

Not Charity, but Repair: a Response to Pope Leo’s Slavery Apology

May 31, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Signed on 15th May, 2026 and released on 25th May, 2026, Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, marks a significant moment in the long reckoning with slavery. It contains the clearest papal acknowledgment to date of the Holy See’s role...

God’s gift to Guyanese

Jun 04, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – No! It’s not oil. It’s bigger. It’s neither mountains nor minerals, seas and forests. Grand, indeed; but wrong again. None of those even come close to God’s greatest gift to Guyanese. All of them. Whoever is such a Gulliverian figure...

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